I am re-reading A Fall of Princes by Judith Tarr. Here is a passage ( Read more... )

From my 2007 Daily Quote calendar produced by a dear (and warped) friend of mine: "If you do such a thing again, I'll have you buttered." -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Certainly has amused *me* this morning at work...

...today of a quote ( Read more... )

I've discovered a "new" obsession. Books. If you've never been in any house, apartment or room I've lived in, you might not know that I have quite a few of them. In fact, I'm in the midst of cataloging them via LibraryThing. I've made it as far as the family room from the front room. I'm thinking that 1,500 might even have been a conservative ( Read more... )

Just because I thought this was cool and wanted to remember it ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, seer_eridanus & syngerIn honor of your birthdays, here's the quote from my QotD calendar (compiled by my illustrious quote-collecting sister from her vast collection ( Read more... )

"Drunken, illiterate, stoned monkeys listening to music of dubious value."

Betcha can't guess what we were discussing in THAT conversation, now, can you?

From a book I read tonight: "Never try to milk a chicken. It hardly ever works."

Words to live by.

From this Newsweek Society article on MSNBC (thanks, wiredwitch!)

"If you feel God within you, then the important question is settled; the rest is details." (Jerry Adler, Newsweek)

Amen!

Heard at dinner tonight: "If God is Life tech support, you don't ask RTFM questions." Hmm...